2023 Softball Roster
Jersey Number 15
Miranda Gallardo
- Position:
- Infielder
- Height:
- 5-2
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Buena Park, Calif.
- High School:
- John F. Kennedy
 University of Illinois Graduate |
Senior - 2023
- Academic All-Big Ten
- Big Ten Sportsmanship Award Winner
- Played in 14 games, primarily as a pinch runner
- Scored five runs
- Logged a stolen base against Southern (2/10/23) and North Carolina A&T (3/3/23)
- Recorded four at bats during the season
Junior - 2022
- Academic All-Big Ten
- Appeared in 25 games for the Illini primarily as a pinch runner
- Stole two bases and scored six runs
- Went 2-for-4 in the box on the season
Sophomore - 2021
- Made 23 appearances while drawing starts in the last two games of the season at Iowa
- Scored 10 runs and stole two bases
- Delivered a sac hit at Iowa on (5/15/21)
- Perfect 1.000 fielding percentage with two putouts and seven assists
Freshman - 2020
- Appeared in 10 games, starting 8 of them and seeing action mainly at shortstop
- .263 BA, 5 H, 4 R, 1 RBI, 5 TB, 2 BB, 5 SH
- Had a 1.000 Fielding % with 7 PO, 8 A, 3 DP and committed no errors
- Went 2-for-3 in a winning effort against Missouri (3/11/20)
- Tallied her first career hit, run and RBI against BYU (2/27/20)
- Made her Illini debut against Liberty (2/7/20) as a pinch runner
High School
- Ranked as a 2019 Extra Elite 200 by Extra Innings Softball as a Top 200 player
- Earned Empire League First-Team honors in 2017 and was Second-Team in 2018
- Helped lead her high school to the 2018 Empire League championship and was named to the 2018 All-Academic Team
- 2017 Kennedy High School Defensive Player of the Year
- Helped lead her Firecrackers Brashear travel team to the 2018 18U Colorado Fireworks Super 64 Championship and fifth-place finishes at the 2018 Premier PGF Nationals in 2017 and 2018
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